William Ruto and his ilk cannot answer the allegations raised by HE Rigathi Gachagua because the inconvenient truth is that the allegations are rooted in facts. Their response will be diversion, name-calling, character assassination and the recycling of tired talking points Kenyans have heard ad nauseam. When facts corner power, propaganda becomes the escape route.
The law is the law. It does not matter for how long the law has been violated. Article 138(1) & (2) of the Constitution, on the Procedure at presidential election, categorically provides:
(1) If only one candidate for President is nominated, that candidate shall be declared elected.
(2) If two or more candidates for President are nominated, an election shall be held in each constituency.
Voting at elections is conducted as provided under Article 86, which provides:
86. At every election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission shall ensure that-
(a) whatever voting method is used, the system is simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent;
(b) the votes cast are counted, tabulated and the results announced promptly by the presiding officer at each polling station;
(c) the results from the polling stations are openly and accurately collated and promptly announced by the returning officer; and (d) appropriate structures and mechanisms to eliminate electoral malpractice are put in place, including the safekeeping of election materials.
From the law above, there is no way the results for the Presidential elections cannot be announced at the Constituency as required by the Constitution. #ReKe #GetitDone #KnowYourConstitution
The Constitution is unequivocal. It DOES NOT not permit ANY verification, re tallying or confirmation of presidential election results after they have been declared by the Constituency Returning Officer.
Articles 86(b) and (c), together with Article 138(2) and 138(3)(c), establish the polling station and the constituency as the only constitutional venues for counting, tallying, verification and declaration of presidential results.
Article 138(10) assigns the @IEBCKenya Chairperson a purely ministerial function. The Chairperson must aggregate the 290 constituency results exactly as received, without altering a single vote, and only confirm whether a candidate has attained the constitutional threshold under Article 138(4).
Section 39 of the Elections Act, particularly Section 39(1C)(b), and Regulation 83(2) purport to create a National Tallying Centre with powers to tally and verify presidential results. Those provisions introduce an extra constitutional process that the Constitution neither creates nor permits.
This unlawful expansion of power has been at the heart of the presidential election disputes of 2013, 2017 and 2022.
The Constitution provides a complete code. Verification ends at the constituency. The National Tallying Centre has no constitutional mandate to re tally, re verify or confirm results. Its role is limited to the mathematical aggregation of constituency results and confirmation of the Article 138(4) threshold.
The greatest achievement of the 2010 Constitution was not just devolution. It was the constitutionalisation of public finance.
Public money no longer belongs to politicians. It belongs to the People and must be raised, borrowed, allocated, spent and audited strictly within the Constitution.
When governments treat the National Treasury as a political department instead of an independent constitutional institution, they undermine the very system Kenyans created to protect public resources.
The Constitution is clear. Public finance is governed by constitutional principles, not political convenience. Defending Chapter Twelve is defending the sovereignty of the People. #ReKe #KnowYourConstitution #GetitDone
📍 The Council of Governors is holding its Ordinary Full Council Meeting at the COG Headquarters, Delta Corner, Nairobi.
COG Chairperson H.E. FCPA Ahmed Abdullahi will deliver the State of Devolution Address 2026, outlining the progress, achievements and future priorities of devolution in Kenya.
Stay tuned for live updates.
#SODA2026 #StateOfDevolution2026
@HEAhmedJiir@maarifa_centre@CogChair
County Governments received the full equitable share allocation of KSh415 billion, while Own Source Revenue collections reached KSh53.88 billion during the first nine months of FY2025/26, a 17% increase over the previous year.
#SODA2026#StateOfDevolution2026@maarifa_centre@CEOCOG@CogChair
Because we are ethic/religious Minority, because we are marginalised, because we are poor, because we are uneducated, because our regions are marginalised, because our regions have poor infrastructure...and because we are MUSLIMS...we are with H.E WILLIAM RUTO 100%.
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Hon. Duale,
I build information systems for a living, so let me speak to you not as a politician but as the technical man in the room because the defence you have mounted is legally tidy and technically hollow.
You have answered the wrong question.
The country did not ask whether the two per cent fee is legal.
Everyone can see it is gazetted.
The country asked whether it should exist and who was positioned to collect it before the ink dried.
“Parliament approved it” is not a rebuttal to that, it is a confession that the charge was written into law rather than won in a tender.
Let me put it in terms my clients understand.
When an organisation buys an ERP, it pays once to build it and a maintenance fee to keep it running.
It does not then pay a toll every time a clerk writes a record into a database it already owns.
You have built the health rail with public money and then legislated a turnstile on it and pegged the turnstile to two per cent of the value passing through.
That is not “a capped fee for the use of a system,” as you put it.
The KES 5,000 cap limits a single claim; it does nothing to the aggregate.
As enrolment grows and claim volumes rise, that revenue line grows with them, automatically, forever.
You have not priced a service.
You have indexed a private income to the size of the national health budget.
Call that what it is.
You defend the arrangement by noting the law ���permits sub-contracting.”
When a man reaches for the sub-contract to justify the deal, he is protecting whoever sits beneath the consortium and earns the percentage.
You told us where to look.
Here is the technical truth beneath the legal language: when you write the revenue model a fixed percentage, a named “Data Exchange Component,” a specific architecture into a regulation, you have not run a procurement.
Any of us who has sat on the other side of a Microsoft or Oracle negotiation knows exactly what a vendor lock written into law looks like and this is it, only worse, because the customer here cannot walk away.
Every Kenyan is the captive user.
I will grant you the one thing you are right about.
UHC cannot run on paper, and digitisation is not the enemy I would be the last man to argue it.
But that is not the fight, and you know it.
The fight is whether a public health system, once built with public money, should carry a private, volume-linked toll written into the law itself, and whether the hand collecting it earned that place on merit or was simply named in advance.
You closed by saying every shilling under Taifa Care belongs to the Kenyan patient.
You wrote that one paragraph after explaining the two per cent that does not.
Yours, in candour,
Njoroge from Kingeero.
𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜 𝗟𝗔𝗪𝗬𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗛𝟰𝟵.𝟰𝗠 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗠
Detectives from the DCI Nairobi Regional Office have arrested Ally Ahmed Ally, an advocate, over the alleged theft of Sh49.4 million entrusted to him for the purchase of a parcel of land in Nairobi.
The suspect, who practises under the firm of Rasheed Rage and Nassir Advocates, was arrested within Kilimani Sub-County for the offence of Stealing by Agent, contrary to Section 283(b) of the Penal Code.
Investigations established that the complainant entrusted the suspect with Sh49,400,500 on diverse dates between 16th November 2023 and 3rd January 2024 to facilitate the purchase of the land.
However, instead of applying the funds for the intended transaction, the suspect allegedly diverted the money and unlawfully converted it to his own use.
Ahmed is currently in lawful custody, undergoing processing pending arraignment.
#FichuaKwaDCI. Call 0800 722 203 (Toll-free) or WhatsApp at 0709 570 000 to report anonymously. Usiogope!
You plunder a coastal county to it's knees. A whole decade. Your mandate was to fly baddies business class. You then turn around and blame son of jomo. Watu wengine ni maumbwa sana
During the campaign for the 2010 constitution, Ruto joined other "born again" Christians to spread egregious lies about the document. Among the lies:
▪︎ Christians will be hauled before sharia courts & tried under Islamic law
▪︎ Churches will be converted to Kadhi Courts presided over by imams
▪︎ The Islamic Calendar will replace the current Gregorian calendar
▪︎ The constitution would open the floodgates for mass abortions. They claimed that "abortion wards" would be opened in all public hospitals
▪︎ That the Bill of Rights secretly legalized or paved the way for the recognition of same-sex marriages
▪︎ That the state would nationalize small ancestral lands, limit family land sizes, or evict people from their properties
Reports indicate that President William Ruto has invited approximately 8,000 Muslim religious leaders—including imams, madrassa teachers, and mosque committee members—to State House. It is alleged that the purpose of this meeting is to encourage them to promote his two-term political agenda from the mosque pulpit.
The mosque is a sacred place of worship, guidance, and unity for all Muslims, regardless of their political beliefs. It should never be turned into a platform for partisan political campaigns or electoral messaging.
Muslim organizations such as SUPKEM and NAMLEF are free to express political positions as institutions. However, the mosque pulpit has historically remained above partisan politics and must continue to be protected from political influence.
We therefore call upon Muslim religious leaders to uphold the sanctity and neutrality of the mosque by rejecting any attempt to use it for partisan political purposes. The pulpit belongs to Allah and should be reserved for religious guidance, moral instruction, and the unity of the Ummah—not political campaigning.
I am down with a bad flu.
I had not read this statement.
Having read it, I must say that the statement does not represent any of the issues we discussed yesterday, and areas of agreement and convergence.
For instance, it was agreed:
1. The JSC undertakes RRI for all petitions pending before it against Judges, and determines them within 60 days;
2. The JSC will issue administrative directives for the expedited hearing of all cases pending in Court where orders stopping the JSC or EACC from probing Judges or Magistrates have been issued;
3. The JSC and the LSK will coordinate with the Committee of Parliament on delegated legislation to expedite the approval and enactment of Regulations relating to the consideration of petitions for removal of Judges; and
4. The LSK will halt the “escorting” of Judges and Magistrates from stations.
The JSC pleaded with the LSK to end the targeted boycott of Judges and Magistrates who have stopped investigations against them by the JSC and EACC. The LSK stood its ground that the boycott will go on until those orders are set aside.
Evidently, the JSC, the C J and the CRJ are trying to be clever. I doubt they are. They should therefore not be surprised if a call to escort the CJ out of office is made and implemented.
The harshest reality of being an entrepreneur in Kenya is that you can build a business that feeds families, pays taxes, creates jobs and solves real problems—yet still struggle to pay yourself.
Customers delay payments for months. Banks demand collateral you do not have. Government takes its taxes before you recover your costs. Licences, levies, rent, salaries, fuel, electricity and emergencies never wait for your cash flow to improve.
Everyone sees the business and assumes you have money. Few see the sleepless nights, the unpaid invoices, the personal sacrifices, the loans, the disappointments and the pressure of knowing that several families depend on you.
In Kenya, entrepreneurship is often not freedom. It is carrying an entire ecosystem on your back while pretending everything is fine.
And still, every morning, you wake up, open the doors and try again.